Scmdraft 2 - 0.9.0 Preview

On May 17 2017 12:45 JungleTerrain wrote:
SI, if we want to post a bug, or even a suggestion, or anything like that, would you like it to be posted here on TL or on Staredit.net, or PM or email? I personally have a really hard time with SEN (doesn't even send me a verification email even after multiple tries).

On May 17 2017 16:57 S.I. wrote:


Here is fine. That's why I made the thread =) Once I'm fairly confident most of the remaining bugs have been found and fixed I'll continue posting it to more sites.

Note: I may be traveling the next few days and offline

On May 18 2017 03:33 JungleTerrain wrote:I'm absolutely loving the Tile and Microtile overlays! Although I'm not too sure what some of them are, for example, what is the difference between "Height" and "High Ground"? (EDIT2: Just found out what Height does) And all the "Unknown" or "Deprecated" overlays? Maybe these questions are better answered on SEN, although I cannot even make an account there... Will you be filling these in with more proper names once they are figured out in an upcoming release?

On May 18 2017 08:44 S.I. wrote:
Black never was an official color, it just worked to due a buffer overflow in the player color lookup, and always has been patch dependent. StarCraft (since broodwar and up to 1.16) only has 16 colors defined "officially". I never tested if 1.18 still has all 16 - but they still are in the data files for the 8bit graphics.

On May 18 2017 08:44 S.I. wrote:
Black never was an official color, it just worked to due a buffer overflow in the player color lookup, and always has been patch dependent. StarCraft (since broodwar and up to 1.16) only has 16 colors defined "officially". I never tested if 1.18 still has all 16 - but they still are in the data files for the 8bit graphics.

On May 21 2017 19:31 S.I. wrote:
I decided to do something fun last night.... transparent creep:

On May 23 2017 10:44 treason2017 wrote:
hey SI, any plans to add new features?

On May 23 2017 09:39 Bolshevik- wrote:
Two questions. Does this new version allow for more 'locations' than previous one's? Also, while we are talking about creep is there a way to disable it for a specific building without having to build it on a specific terrain (like rocky or ruins)?

On May 23 2017 10:44 treason2017 wrote:
hey SI, any plans to add new features?

On May 24 2017 08:59 Bolshevik- wrote:
Hmm I'm getting some kind of error when I open latest scmdraft 2. "The procedure entry point richmond could not be located in the dynamic links library etc etc."

On May 25 2017 09:11 S.I. wrote:

You can try ignoring it and seeing if everything works, it should at most effect the trigger editor.

If I can't reproduce it can I send you a version with some test code?

On June 26 2017 10:39 Mistakes wrote:
Something I just found. I was making a fastest map and upon nearly completing it and testing it, the Terran and Protoss workers mine the stack of minerals no problem, but Zerg Drones don't want to mine more than one or two at a time. Any suggestions?

On June 26 2017 12:22 Mistakes wrote:


So I found the problem. I was using a tile that was highground for the area of the main building and lowground area for the minerals. For whatever reason the other races acted like it was no different but drones would not continue mining for whatever reason.

On June 28 2017 00:38 neobowman wrote:
Brood War is literally just a pile of bugs stacked together that somehow ended up as the best game.

On June 29 2017 08:19 RedW4rr10r wrote:
I've always wondered how you can create a nuke silo with a nuke in it, I just didn't get it to work. But Brood War Terran 5a proves that it can be done. And on top of that the nuke silo's lights flash only for a few seconds when it's building a nuke. I never understood.
But now when opening BW Terra 5a, player 1 (the nuking terran) uses the script "Brood Wars Terran 2 - Town A". At first I was confused but I remembered that in BW Terran 2 you have four nukes in the later stages (the mission where you have to steal those battle cruisers). And there was the same thing with the nukes...

Ok, at least I know now for sure that I didn't have a chance to do this myself xD Well, I did manage to make the AI build a nuke but in order to make that happen, it needs to start harvesting and shortly after, it builds the nuke. However, the building time is the standard one, but those campaign scenarios use a "chrono boost" or whatever :D

On June 29 2017 07:35 RedW4rr10r wrote:
I've got a question and i hope this belongs to here.

Does anybody know what exactly those AI scritps do (examples):

Brood Wars Protoss 2 - Town D
Brood Wars Terran 4 - Town A
Brood Wars Zerg 1 - Town E


Other strange ones are:

Protoss 10 - Mini-Ttowns
Protoss 3 - Air Zerg Town
Terran 2 - Electornic Distribution
Zerg 9 - Right Orange Protoss


Edit: I've just opened BW campaign Zerg 3 where you have to gather 10k minerals and you only have Terran opponents. All Terran AIs use scripts like "Brood Wars Zerg 3 - Town D" (applies for orange who never attacks you - and has a firebat constantly jumping into a bunker and leaving it again). However, brown uses the script "Brood Wars Zerg 3 - Town E" who attacks you every now and then. So those script stand for the respective missions in both StarCraft and Brood War and they seem to be hard coded.

On June 29 2017 17:17 Freakling wrote:

Yes, those are Campaign scripts. All they usually do is give a list of buildings to build, some instructions what units to defend with (against ground to ground attacks build the following units and use them for defense etc...) and hard-coded attacks (build such and such units and send them attacking).
Protoss 10 - Mini-Ttowns is a satellite base script (analogous to the "Campaign area town" scripts). All it does is make the AI build a Hatch (if there isn't one already) and some workers and use them to mine at those locations.

Terran 2 - Electronic Distribution is a script for the Shareware campaign. Some of them are actually dublicates, as there are also "Shareware" scripts around (but the actual Shareware release leaves out some of the missions).

There is actually an AI script editor for BroodWar you can read the scripts with and see what exactly they do. Just search the web for it.

EDIT: Use this as a starting point.

On June 29 2017 13:31 JungleTerrain wrote:
S.I. is it possible to have an editable Recent Maps list under the Files menu?

Nothing too crazy, but for example at least being able to delete some of the entries.

On July 01 2017 11:17 S.I. wrote:
.... still very much a work in progress.... and I'm very grateful to tscmoo for letting me reimplement his reimplementation and answering questions.

On July 07 2017 11:10 neobowman wrote:
Could you explain ramp vortexes real quick? And do the Korean mapmakers know?

On July 08 2017 14:03 GTR wrote:
For those still confused with the concept of a ramp vortex, here's a real-time example.

On July 08 2017 14:22 S.I. wrote:


Thanks for finding an example =)

On July 08 2017 14:03 GTR wrote:
For those still confused with the concept of a ramp vortex, here's a real-time example.

On July 08 2017 13:58 neobowman wrote:
This sounds like the perfect time for you guys to make an article about this and see if someone can translate it to korean to post on one of the big Korean boards. This is actually pretty huge.

On July 13 2017 17:38 Falling wrote:
Oh, I just saw this. I'm so glad someone's been updating ScmDraft. I just got back into making maps and the old ScmDraft had a weird bug on my computer for the last couple years that would crash whenever I zoomed out. This one doesn't so we're back in business

On July 08 2017 09:04 Freakling wrote:
So here's a bug-fixed version of Circuit Breakers.

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List of updates

• Completely redid all the reversed ramps (using my own space ramps) to fix lots of terrain level bugs and adjust their width and angle to that of normal High Platform ramps.
  
• Fixed the bugged geyser in the top right main (turned out a single cliff tile swap sufficed)
  
• Cleaned up the rather messy terrain editing around the 3/9 o'clock expansions
  
• Filled in a lots of potential drop holes around the map
  
• cleaned up some other messy terrain editing
  

Things I haven't changed:

• I kept all the low ground ramps as they are. I'd consider the kind of old-schoolish lack of reverse ramps a nice touch and the map accounts for it with a layout that does not really require reverse ramps to maintain good balance.
  
• The top right natural geyser still mines very slowly. Not much that can be done about that, as it's just a bad geyser position.
  
• Looks as dull as ever. I am not going to start decorating other people's maps...
  
• I kept main ramp positions between top and bottom mains asymmetrical because changing it would have meant to make the gap between resource depot and ramp tighter for the bottom positions, which I think would be more of an issue. The original ramps were certainly put in their respective positions for exactly this reason.
  
• Aside from the top right main geyser, no resources where changed, mostly because it was not necessary: Luckily all the relevant path-finding regions turned out either the same or even cleaner than before, so if there are any bugs with worker pathing they ought to have been there before.
  That being said, some of the formations are really asymmetrical and there is certainly room for improvement (particularly with Comsat issues). So this might be something to look into for future updates.
  

On July 17 2017 16:57 iopq wrote:
I would probably fix the "unmined minerals" where workers don't automatically transfer over to the next patch because it's off to the side too far.

I would also just completely move the natural gasses so that they mine at a better rate.

On July 24 2017 19:15 LatiAs wrote:
I think, if some unit move from A to B, unit try to find minimum regions between A and B(Yellow rec), not minimum distance.

Thats why gas of CB 1'o has worker bug.

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On August 23 2017 06:47 Bolshevik- wrote:
Will the scmdraft 2 ever stop crashing every 5 seconds? Wasn't an issue before as much but now its just terrible. Like I just mouse around the screen and it crashes.

On August 23 2017 06:47 Bolshevik- wrote:
Will the scmdraft 2 ever stop crashing every 5 seconds? Wasn't an issue before as much but now its just terrible. Like I just mouse around the screen and it crashes.

On August 23 2017 07:39 S.I. wrote:

Send me the minidump file and which version you are using and I will take a look.

Also make sure you are using the current version. (There was a build a few weeks back that may have crashed if there was too many animations on the screen at once, but that was fixed two days later)

On October 18 2017 18:16 blitzburns4 wrote:
Hello S.I.

First off, thank you for your continued work on this toolkit. It's vastly useful and intuitive and I love using it even as a noob mapmaker.

With that said- I need your help for a basic function as a mapmaker, because I cannot seem to find it within scmdraft 2.0. I'm currently editing a custom map so I can play it with a reduced number of players. (Its an edit to an existing map.) I'm trying to make it so the units for the various players still spawn whether the players are there or not. Currently, if a player is not in the slot when the game starts; the units will not spawn at all. I'm trying to have the units spawn and then have a separate trigger to transfer them to a neutral computer. Any idea if I can do this within scmdraft?

Thank you in advance,

blitzburns4

On October 21 2017 08:12 killer_power wrote:
i have a Bug, StarCraft v1.20.8.3060, Remastered unlocked. resoures is invisible, unit cost can not change